The Bigger Truth in Tech with Scott Sinclair: Recent Episodes
Enterprise Strategy Group
I'm Scott Sinclair, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and the host of our new podcast The Bigger Truth in Tech. After a couple of decades in the IT industry and several more as an industry analyst, one truth stands out: how difficult it is to be an IT and technology leader in today's digital age of business. The ever-changing technology landscape is more complex than ever and for that reason, I'm setting out to speak with leaders and experts from every corner of the technology industry to provide listeners with a clear, concise, and accurate perspective on the most important technology trends impacting your business today. We're going to have a lot of fun and I hope you'll join us for the ride.
This time, Scott talks with Piyush Mehta, CEO of Data Dynamics, about data democratization, and the risks and opportunities that are likely to emerge from the changing landscape. They discuss moving from being owners of data to becoming custodians or stewards of that data on behalf of the individuals who should properly own that data. Additionally, they consider how organizations can break down the silos in which they currently manage data to get to intelligent governance of that data, leveraging currently available technology not only to ensure compliance but also to extract business—and individual—value from it.
On this episode, Scott continues his conversation series on containers and Kubernetes. He talks with Peter Meister, Chief Executive Officer from c4i Technologies, about the future of Kubernetes, how it is changing the infrastructure landscape, whether it will eventually overtake hypervisors as the dominant application platform, and how organizations can identify the partners and vendors that truly understand Kubernetes.
Scott welcomes Daniel back to the podcast and this time they discuss containers and Kubernetes and how they tie into modern DevOps practices to accelerate business opportunities and compare Kubernetes-native versus cloud-native strategies. In addition, they hit on the key differences between containers and VMs, the impact of different programming languages, especially Java, on Kubernetes environments, and tools and recommendations for organizations to leverage Kubernetes or other technologies to better develop applications supporting microservices and big scaling.
Scott welcomes Michael Feranti, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Portworx by Pure Storage, to the podcast. Michael talks about his experience from the BK (Before Kubernetes) era, when Portworx made the bet that containers would become the primary building block for enterprise applications. Scott and Michael address the “assumption gap” and detail the differences between containers and VMs for those who assume they should already know, and what makes them useful. In addition, they talk through the mistakes that organizations have made in their containerization journeys, including how Kubernetes is enabling Rogue IT 2.0, and how to avoid them, including giving developers the ability to make “good, lazy decisions” when it comes to security.
In this episode, Scott chats with Nivas Iyer, Consultant Product Manager, Kubernetes and Cloud Native Date Protection at Dell Technologies, about containers and cloud-native applications. Their talk covers digital transformation, how organizations should prioritize their containerization efforts and what challenges they can expect, balancing the flexibility of multiple options with increased complexity, and how the different goals of parents and children when shopping for yogurt can illuminate the relationship between IT and development teams.
In this episode, Scott and his guest, Daniel Oh, Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, look at things from the application development angle as they discuss how Kubernetes has impacted the interloop development workflow, how it makes developers’ jobs more complicated, and the business benefits that can be realized as a result of embracing Kubernetes – and Daniel shows how the cloud capabilities can balance the needs of the development and operations teams.
Please join Scott as he welcomes Matthew Ericson, Senior Product Manager at Commvault, and they discuss the difference between containers and VMs, how data protection processes for containers are different, and what organizations need to look out for when they are adopting Kubernetes.